The Daily Companion — Audio Edition No. 33 (Saturday, November 7, 2026)

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Good morning, Gulfport — and welcome to Saturday. Edition Number Thirty-Three of The Daily Companion, for Saturday, November the seventh, opens with an entry that moved the furniture: Edmund, an Otterhound, arrives at the harbor end, one hundred and fifteen pounds of living anachronism, and the parish finds itself rearranged for the better. The season of Calder keeps day six — the fit, found — and the readings close the edition, as they close the paper, on pages seven and eight. Inside: four tales — Rosalind Runs the Pantry, Percival Reads the Lane, Celia Takes the Ball, Entirely, and Matilda Meets Everyone. The Dog Weather Watch calls on Gulfport, Edinburgh, and Hobart (the Watch is reported by dogs; accuracy is not among its ambitions). The Dog Game is Sit Between Knees — three minutes, very easy, a safe zone for the dog who needs one. The Police Desk files its featured report, "The Watch, Kept Without a River," on Humphrey, the Otterhound of the river end, and the Barketplace prices the rarity of the breed that keeps a river with no otters left in it. The editorial keeps the beard. The Book Page reviews You Decided to Get an Otterhound — FIVE PAWS. Bruno's blog tells of the loyalty that arrived quietly, with Winifred at the station end, and his moral closes the edition. Music: two sixty-second excerpts — "Tampa Across the Water 2" and "Toccata for a Single Theorbo" — over a bed of "Calm After the Current." A brief tipping disclosure airs mid-edition, after the front page and before the Tales. The Daily Companion is narrated by AI-generated voices.